[Chief Engineer]

Actually the information regarding racism comes from one of Madelyn Dunham’s co-workers who is quoted here:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/NEWS01/106040003/-1/SPECIALOBAMA08

Sam Slom was a Bank of Hawaii economist at the time and was married to a Korean-Chinese woman. Slom remembers looking at housing ads that openly expressed racial preferences.

The landlords’ ads read, “’No haoles,’ or ‘AJAs (Americans of Japanese ancestry) Only,’ or ‘No Japanese,’” Slom said.

Remember we are talking another time here before the enactment of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII amended)of 1968 and also before enactment of the Food Stamp program which was only a pilot project from Feb/61 until it was made into a Federal program Aug.31/64.

Also remember that during that time Ann and Sr’s actions would have resulted in arrest and conviction in many states of the Union!

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Chief!

In 1961 that may well have been the case but it's suspect since most of the property owners then, as now, were Haoles, Chinese or AJAs. There were plantation camps on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island at that time and up up to the '90s, so maybe rentals in those properties were denied to more upscale folks seeking cheap rentals. That's just a guess.

In 2008, there are rental and lease ads run in the papers that state 'No County'; i.e, no county assistance renters. Plenty of reasons for this though.